MOCK TEST-5

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 Mock test 5
Listening
Listen audio and answer the questions below

Section 1

Questions 1-10

Question 1

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C

Example:

What’s the name of the accommodation house?

A. Jerry House

B. Thomas House

C. Student House

1. The accommodation was originally built as _____________________

A. student flat.

B. local museum.

C. private house.

Questions 2 and 3

Choose TWO letters, A~E.

Which of the following TWO facilities are NOT in the house?

A. bathroom

B. balcony

C. computer room

D. garden E. garage

Questions 4-7

Complete the table below.

Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

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 RULE

Bedroom and bathroom 4_________________

5______________ room Use before 11 p.m.

Lounge 6_________________ after 11 p.m.

Yard 7_________________

Questions 8-10

Complete the sentences below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

8. _____________________ is only allowed on weekends.

9. The opening time of the front door is_____________________.

10. You can go to Room 101 beside reception to get a______________________ .

Section 2

Questions 11-20

Questions 11-17

Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Item Tennis Soccer

Number of teams 11________________ 4

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Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

The match always begins with a 18_________________.

19_______________ will be awarded an honor and prize.

All players must write a 20__________________ by April 18th.

Section 3

Questions 21-30

Questions 21-24

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

The tutor’s new room number is 21_________________

The tutorial time is at 22____________________

The reason for the student to see his tutor is to 23______________________

The student’s trouble is to have many 24__________________ to read.

Questions 25-28

Choose your answer below and write the letters, A-F, next to Questions 25-28.

What recommendations does the tutor make about the reference books?

A. All

B. Research method

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C. Main Body

D. Conclusion

E. Avoid

F. Argument

25. Bayer: ________________

26. Oliver: ________________

27. Billy: ________________

28. Andrew: ________________

Questions 29 and 30

Choose TWO letters, A-E.

Which TWO of the following points does the tutor warn student’s research work?

A. interviewees

B. make data clearly

C. time arrangement

D. reference books

E. questionnaire design

Section 4

Questions 31-40

Questions 31-40

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Magic Meteor Astronomy

Meteors are usually named 31____________________.

Meteoroids belong to inner 32____________________ system.

Meteor storms are more beautiful and amazing than 33______________________.

The biggest meteor storm happened in 34______________________.

Leonids are usually connected with 35______________________.

A 36________________________ is brighter than any of the stars and planets.

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Most meteors appear color of 37________________________.

In the 17th Century, many people regarded meteorite as 38_________________________.

The most magnificent meteorite event took place on 39_____________________ 1908.

Dinosaurs became extinct about 40______________________ years ago.

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Reading
Reading Passage 1

Animal Minds: Parrot Alex

A. In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University did something very bold. At a
time when animals still were considered automatons, she set out to find what was on another
creature’s mind by talking to it. She brought a one-year-old African grey parrot she named Alex into her
lab to teach him to reproduce the sounds of the English language. “I thought if he learned to
communicate, I could ask him questions about how he sees the world.”

B. When Pepperberg began her dialogue with Alex, who died last September at the age of 31,
many scientists believed animals were incapable of any thought. They were simply machines, robots
programmed to react to stimuli but lacking the ability to think or feel. Any pet owner would disagree.
We see the love in our dogs’ eyes and know that, of course, they have thoughts and emotions. But such
claims remain highly controversial. Gut instinct is not science, and it is all too easy to project human
thoughts and feelings onto another creature. How, then, does a scientist prove that an animal is capable
of thinking – that it can acquire information about the world and act on it? “That’s why I started my
studies with Alex,” Pepperberg said. They were seated – she at her desk, he on top of his cage – in her
lab, a windowless room about the size of a boxcar, at Brandeis University. Newspapers lined the floor;
baskets of bright toys were stacked on the shelves. They were a team – and because of their work, the
notion that animals can think is no longer so fanciful.

C. Certain skills are considered key signs of higher mental abilities: good memory, a grasp of
grammar and symbols, self-awareness, understanding others’ motives, imitating others, and being
creative. Bit by bit, in ingenious experiments, researchers have documented these talents in other
species, gradually chipping away at what we thought made human beings distinctive while offering a
glimpse of where our own abilities came from. Scrub jays know that other jays are thieves and that
stashed food can spoil; sheep can recognize faces; chimpanzees use a variety of tools to probe termite
mounds and even use weapons to hunt small mammals; dolphins can imitate human postures; the
archerfish, which stuns insects with a sudden blast of water, can learn how to aim its squirt simply by
watching an experienced fish perform the task and Alex the parrot turned out to be a surprisingly good
talker.

D. Thirty years after the Alex studies began; Pepperberg and a changing collection of assistants
were still giving him English lessons. The humans, along with two younger parrots, also served as Alex’s
flock, providing the social input all parrots crave. Like any flock, this one – as small as it was – had its
share of drama. Alex dominated his fellow parrots, acted huffy at times around Pepperberg, tolerated
the other female humans, and fell to pieces over a male assistant who dropped by for a visit.
Pepperberg bought Alex in a Chicago pet store where she let the store’s assistant pick him out because
she didn’t want other scientists saying later that she’d particularly chosen an especially smart bird for
her work. Given that Alex’s brain was the size of a shelled walnut, most researchers thought
Pepperberg’s interspecies communication study would be futile.

E. “Some people actually called me crazy for trying this,” she said. “Scientists thought that
chimpanzees were better subjects, although, of course, chimps can’t speak.” Chimpanzees, bonobos,

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and gorillas have been taught to use sign language and symbols to communicate with us, often with
impressive results.
The bonobo Kanzi, for instance, carries his symbol-communication board with him so he can “talk” to his
human researchers, and he has invented combinations of symbols to express his thoughts. Nevertheless,
this is not the same thing as having an animal look up at you, open his mouth, and speak. Under
Pepperberg’s patient tutelage, Alex learned how to use his vocal tract to imitate almost one hundred
English words, including the sounds for various foods, although he calls an apple a “beanery.” “Apples
taste a little bit like bananas to him, and they look a little bit like cherries, Alex made up that word for
them,” Pepperberg said.

F. It sounded a bit mad, the idea of a bird having lessons to practice, and willingly doing it. But
after listening to and observing Alex, it was difficult to argue with Pepperberg’s explanation for his
behaviours. She wasn’t handing him treats for the repetitious work or rapping him on the claws to make
him say the sounds. “He has to hear the words over and over before he can correctly imitate them,”
Pepperberg said, after pronouncing “seven” for Alex a good dozen times in a row. “I’m not trying to see
if Alex can learn a human language,” she added. “That’s never been the point. My plan always was to
use his imitative skills to get a better understanding of avian cognition.”

G. In other words, because Alex was able to produce a close approximation of the sounds of some
English words, Pepperberg could ask him questions about a bird’s basic understanding of the world. She
couldn’t ask him what he was thinking about, but she could ask him about his knowledge of numbers,
shapes, and colours. To demonstrate, Pepperberg carried Alex on her arm to a tall wooden perch in the
middle of the room. She then retrieved a green key and a small green cup from a basket on a shelf. She
held up the two items to Alex’s eye. “What’s the same?” she asked. Without hesitation, Alex’s beak
opened: “Color.” “What’s different?” Pepperberg asked. “Shape,” Alex said. His voice had the digitized
sound of a cartoon character. Since parrots lack lips (another reason it was difficult for Alex to
pronounce some sounds, such as ba), the words seemed to come from the air around him, as if a
ventriloquist were speaking. But the words – and what can only be called the thoughts – were entirely
his.

H. For the next 20 minutes, Alex ran through his tests, distinguishing colours, shapes, sizes, and
materials (wool versus wood versus metal). He did some simple arithmetic, such as counting the yellow
toy blocks among a pile of mixed hues. And, then, as if to offer final proof of the mind inside his bird’s
brain, Alex spoke up. “Talk clearly!” he commanded, when one of the younger birds Pepperberg was
also teaching talked with wrong pronunciation. “Talk clearly!” “Don’t be a smart aleck,” Pepperberg
said, shaking her head at him. “He knows all this, and he gets bored, so he interrupts the others, or he
gives the wrong answer just to be obstinate. At this stage, he’s like a teenager; he’s moody, and I’m
never sure what he’ll do.”

Questions 1-6

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?

In boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE, if the statement agrees with the information

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FALSE, if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN, if there is no information on this

1. Firstly, Alex has grasped quite a lot of vocabulary.

2. At the beginning of the study, Alex felt frightened in the presence of humans.

3. Previously, many scientists realized that animals possess the ability of thinking.

4. It has taken a long time before people get to know cognition existing in animals.

5. As Alex could approximately imitate the sounds of English words, he was capable of roughly
answering Irene’s questions regarding the world.

6. By breaking in other parrots as well as producing the incorrect answers, he tried to be focused.

Questions 7-10

Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage, using NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS from the Reading Passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 7-10 on your answer sheet.

After the training of Irene, Parrot Alex can use his vocal tract to pronounce more than 7……………………,
while other scientists believe that animals have no this advanced ability of thinking, they would rather
teach 8…………………….. Pepperberg clarified that she wanted to conduct a study
concerning 9…………………. but not to teach him to talk. The store’s assistant picked out a bird at random
for her for the sake of avoiding other scientists saying that the bird is 10…………………… afterwards.

Questions 11-13

Answer the questions 11-13 below.

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.

11. What did Alex reply regarding the similarity of the subjects showed to him?

12. What is the problem of the young parrots except for Alex?

13. To some extent, through the way, he behaved what we can call him

Reading Passage 2

Developing Courtiers

A. The Ecotourism Society defines ecotourism as “responsible travel to natural areas which conserves
the environment and improves the welfare of local people”. It is recognized as being particularly
conducive to enriching and enhancing the standing of tourism, on the basis that this form of tourism
respects the natural heritage and local populations and are in keeping with the carrying capacity of

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 the sites. Cuba is undoubtedly an obvious site for ecotourism, with its picturesque beaches,
underwater beauty, countryside landscapes, and ecological reserves.

B. An educated population and improved infrastructure of roads and communications add to the mix. In
the Caribbean region, Cuba is now the second most popular tourist destination. Ecotourism is also
seen as an environmental education opportunity to heighten both visitors’ and residents’ awareness
of environmental and conservation issues, and even to inspire conservation action. Ecotourism has
also been credited with promoting peace, by providing opportunities for educational and cultural
exchange. Tourists’ safety and health are guaranteed. Raul Castro, brother of the Cuban president,
started this initiative to rescue the Cuban tradition of herbal medicine and provide natural medicines
for its healthcare system. The school at Las Terrazas Eco-Tourism Community teaches herbal
healthcare and children learn not only how to use medicinal herbs, but also to grow them in the
school garden for teas, tinctures, ointments, and creams. In Cuba, ecotourism has the potential to
alleviate poverty by bringing money into the economy and creating jobs. In addition to the
environmental impacts of these efforts, the area works on developing community employment
opportunities for locals, in conjunction with ecotourism.

C. In terms of South America, it might be the place which shows the shortcoming of ecotourism.
Histoplasma capsulatum, a dimorphic fungus, is the most common endemic mycosis in the United
States and is associated with exposure to bat or bird droppings. Most recently, outbreaks have been
reported in healthy travellers who returned from Central and South America after engaging in
recreational activities associated with spelunking, adventure tourism, and ecotourism. It is quite
often to see tourists neglected sanitation while travelling. After engaging in high-risk activities, boots
should be hosed off and clothing placed in airtight plastic bags for laundering. HIV-infected travellers
should avoid risky behaviours or environments, such as exploring caves, particularly those that
contain bat droppings.

D. Nowhere is the keen eye and intimate knowledge of ecotourism are more amidst this fantastic
biodiversity, as we explore remote realms rich in wildlife rather than a nature adventure. A
sustainable tour is significant for ecotourism, one in which we can grow hand in hand with nature and
our community, respecting everything that makes us privileged. Travellers get great joy from every
step that takes forward on this endless but exciting journey towards sustainability. The primary
threats to South America’s tropical forests are deforestation caused by agricultural expansion, cattle
ranching, fagging, oil extraction and spills, mining, illegal coca farming, and colonization initiatives.
Deforestation has shrunk territories belonging to indigenous peoples and wiped out more than 90%
of the population. Many are taking leading roles in sustainable tourism even as they introduce
protected regions to more travellers.

E. In East Africa, significantly reducing such illegal hunting and allowing wildlife populations to recover
would allow the generation of significant economic benefits through trophy hunting and potentially
ecotourism. “Illegal hunting is an extremely inefficient use of wildlife resources because it fails to
capture the value of wildlife achievable through alternative forms of use such as trophy hunting and
ecotourism,” said Peter Lindsey, author of the new study. Most residents believed that ecotourism
could solve this circumstance. They have a passion for local community empowerment, loves

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 photography and writes to laud current local conservation efforts, create environmental awareness
and promote ecotourism.

F. In Indonesia, ecotourism started to become an important concept from 1995, in order to strengthen
the domestic travelling movement, the local government targeting the right markets is a prerequisite
for successful ecotourism. The market segment for Indonesian ecotourism consists of: (i) “The silent
generation”, 55-64-year-old people who are wealthy enough, generally well-educated and have no
dependent children, and can travel for four weeks; (ii) “The baby boom generation”, junior successful
executives aged 35-54 years, who are likely to be travelling with their family and children (spending
2-3 weeks on travel) – travelling for them is a stress reliever; and (iii) the “X generation”, aged 18-29
years, who love to do ecotours as backpackers – they are generally students who can travel for 3-12
months with a monthly expenditure of US$300-500. It is suggested that the promotion of Indonesian
ecotourism products should aim to reach these various cohorts of tourists. The country welcomes
diverse levels of travellers.

G. On the other hand, ecotourism provides as many services as traditional tourism. Nestled between
Mexico, Guatemala and the Caribbean Sea is the country of Belize. It is the wonderful place for
Hamanasi honeymoon, a bottle of champagne upon arrival, three meals daily, private service on one
night of your stay and a choice of adventures depending on the length of your stay. It also offers
sixnight and seven-night honeymoon packages. A variety of specially tailored tours, including the
Brimstone Hill Fortress, and a trip to a neighbouring island. Guided tours include rainforest, volcano, and
off-road plantation tours. Gregory Pereira, extremely knowledgeable and outgoing hiking and tour guide
say the following about his tours: “All of our tours on St. Kitts include transportation by specially modified
Land Rovers, a picnic of island pastries and local fruit, fresh tropical juices, CSR, a qualified island guide
and a full liability insurance coverage for participants.

H. Kodai is an ultimate splendour spot for those who love being close to mother nature. They say every
bird must sing its own throat while we say every traveller should find his own way out of variegated
and unblemished paths of deep valleys and steep mountains. The cheese factory here exports a great
quantity of cheese to various countries across the globe. It is located in the centre of the forest. Many
travellers are attracted by the delicious cheese. Ecotourism is very famous for this different eating
experience.

Questions 14-18

Use the information in the passage to match the place (listed A-D) with opinions or deeds below.

Write the appropriate letters, A-D, in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet.

NB You may use any letter more than once.

14. a place to improve local education to help tourists

15. a place suitable for both rich and poor travellers

16. a place where could easily get fungus

17. a place taking a method to stop unlawful poaching

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18. a place where the healthcare system is developed

A. Cuba

B. East Africa

C. South America

D. Indonesia Questions 19-22

Use the information in the passage to match the companies (listed A-C) with or deeds below.

Write the appropriate letters A, B, C or D in boxes 19-22 answer sheet.

A. Eating the local fruits at the same time

B. find job opportunities in the community

C. which is situated on the heart of the jungle

D. with private and comfortable service

19. Visiting the cheese factory

20. Enjoying the honeymoon

21. Having the picnic while

22. The residents in Cuba could

Questions 23-26

Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage, using NO MORE THAN TWO
WORDS from the Reading Passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 23-26 on your answer sheet.

Ecotourism is not nature 23…………………… but a 24…………………… tour. The reason why South America
promotes ecotourism is due to the destruction of 25……………………. In addition, East Africa also
encourages this kind of tourism for cutting the 26…………………… in order to save wild animals.

Reading Passage 3

Classifying Societies

Although humans have established many types of societies throughout history sociologists and
anthropologists tend to classify different societies according to the degree to which different groups
within a society have unequal access to advantages such as resources, prestige or power, and usually

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refer to four basic types of societies. From least to most socially complex, they are clans, tribes,
chiefdoms, and states.

Clan

These are small-scale societies of hunters and gatherers, generally of fewer than 100 people, who move
seasonally to exploit wild (undomesticated) food resources. Most surviving hunter-gatherer groups are
of this kind, such as the Hadza of Tanzania or the San of southern Africa. Clan members are generally
kinsfolk, related by descent or marriage. Clans lack formal leaders, so there are no marked economic
differences or disparities in status among their members.

Because clans are composed of mobile groups of hunter-gatherers, their sites consist mainly of
seasonally occupied camps, and other smaller and more specialized sites. Among the latter are kill or
butchery sites – locations where large mammals are killed and sometimes butchered – and work sites,
where tools are made or other specific activities carried out. The base camp of such a group may give
evidence of rather insubstantial dwellings or temporary shelters, along with the debris of residential
occupation.

Tribe

These are generally larger than mobile hunter-gatherer groups, but rarely number more than a few
thousand, and their diet or subsistence is based largely on cultivated plants and domesticated animals.
Typically, they have settled farmers, but they may be nomadic with a very different, mobile economy
based on the intensive exploitation of livestock. These are generally multi-community societies, with the
individual communities integrated into the large society through kinship ties. Although some tribes have
officials and even a “capital” or seat of government, such officials lack the economic base necessary for
effective use of power.

The typical settlement pattern for tribes is one of settled agricultural homesteads or villages.
Characteristically, no one settlement dominates any of the others in the region. Instead, the
archaeologist finds evidence for isolated, permanently occupied houses or for permanent villages. Such
villages may be made up of a collection of free-standing houses, like those of the first farms of the
Danube valley in Europe. Or they may be clusters of buildings grouped together, for example, the
pueblos of the American Southwest, and the early farming village or the small town of Catalhoyuk in
modern Turkey.

Chiefdom

These operate on the principle of ranking-differences in social status between people. Different lineages
(a lineage is a group claiming descent from a common ancestor) are graded on a scale of prestige, and the
senior lineage, and hence the society as a whole, is governed by a chief. Prestige and rank are determined
by how closely related one is to the chief, and there is no true stratification into classes. The role of the
chief is crucial.

Often, there is local specialization in craft products, and surpluses of these and of foodstuffs are
periodically paid as an obligation to the chief. He uses these to maintain his retainers and may use them
for redistribution to his subjects. The chiefdom generally has a centre of power, often with temples,

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residences of the chief and his retainers, and craft specialists. Chiefdoms vary greatly in size, but the range
is generally between about 5000 and 20,000 persons.

Early State

These preserve many of the features of chiefdoms, but the ruler (perhaps a king or sometimes a queen)
has explicit authority to establish laws and also to enforce them by the use of a standing army. Society no
longer depends totally upon kin relationships: it is now stratified into different classes. Agricultural
workers and the poorer urban dwellers form the lowest classes, with the craft specialists above, and the
priests and kinsfolk of the ruler higher still. The functions of the ruler are often separated from those of
the priest: the palace is distinguished from the temple. The society is viewed as a territory owned by the
ruling lineage and populated by tenants who have an obligation to pay taxes. The central capital houses
a bureaucratic administration of officials; one of their principal purposes is to collect revenue (often in
the form of taxes and tolls) and distribute it to government, army and craft specialists. Many early states
developed complex redistribution systems to support these essential services.

This rather simple social typology, set out by Elman Service and elaborated by William Sanders and Joseph
Marino, can be criticized, and it should not be used unthinkingly. Nevertheless, if we are seeking to talk
about early societies, we must use words and hence concepts to do so. Service categories provide a good
framework to help organize our thoughts.

Questions 27-33

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?

In boxes 27-33 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

27. There’s little economic difference between members of a clan.

28. The farmers of a tribe grow a wide range of plants.

29. One settlement is more important than any other settlement in a tribe.

30. A member’s status in a chiefdom is determined by how much land he owns.

31. There are people who craft goods in chiefdoms.

32. The king keeps the order of a state by keeping a military.

33. Bureaucratic officers receive higher salaries than other members.

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Questions 34-39

Answer the questions below.

34. What is made at the clan work sites?

35. What is the other way of life for tribes besides settled farming?

36. How are Catalhoyuk’s housing units arranged?

37. What does a chief give to his subjects as rewards besides crafted goods?

38. What is the largest possible population of a chiefdom?

39. Which group of people is at the bottom of an early state but higher than the farmers?

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Writing Task 1

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Academic Writing Task 1
The bar charts below show the Marriage and Divorce Statistics for nine countries in 1981 and 1994.

Write a short report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

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Write at least 150 words.

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Academic Writing Task 2
The birth rate in most developed countries is predicted to begin to fall over the next 50 years. By 2030 it
is estimated that over one-third of the population in most developed countries will be aged 65 and over:

What effects will these predictions have on developed countries if they prove true? What can be done
now to deal with this situation?

Give reason for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

OR

Many developed countries now have large numbers of people over the age of 65. What problems might
this cause? How can the problems be solved?

Write at least 250 words.

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